Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Natron.
- noun Niter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Old Chem.) Niter.
- noun (Old Chem.) ammonium nitrate; -- probably so called because it deflagerates when suddenly heated.
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- noun chemistry, obsolete
niter
Etymologies
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Examples
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His word nitrum (from Latin from Greek nítron) continued on, along with nitre, as names for saltpeter (from sal petrae), i.e., potassium nitrate.
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The name derives from the Latin nitrum and Greek nitron for "native soda" and genes for "forming" because of nitrogen's presence in potassium nitrate (KNO), so called salpeter or nitre or native soda.
Nitrogen 2009
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“All green vegetables will be made emerald colored, if they are cooked with nitrum.”
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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“All green vegetables will be made emerald colored, if they are cooked with nitrum.”
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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It came to pass also, as a certain merchant sailed that way, loaden with nitrum, the passengers went to land for to repose themselves, and to take in some store of fresh water into their vessel.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Being also on the shore, they kindled a fire and made provision for their dinner, but (because they wanted trevets or stones whereon to set their kettles on) ran by chance into the ship, and brought great pieces of nitrum with them, which served their turn for that present.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Sometimes a material consisting of a lye made of lime or wood-ashes, of nitrum and of fuller's earth was applied to the body.
Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine James Sands Elliott
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Then Kennaston found the alchemist had been compounding nitrum of Memphis with sulphur, mixing in a little willow charcoal to make the whole more friable, and that the powder had exploded.
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Being also on the shore, they kindled a fire and made provision for their dinner, but (because they wanted trevets or stones whereon to set their kettles on) ran by chance into the ship, and brought great pieces of nitrum with them, which served their turn for that present.
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It came to pass also, as a certain merchant sailed that way, loaden with nitrum, the passengers went to land for to repose themselves, and to take in some store of fresh water into their vessel.
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From the examples:
"Mention of this substance is made in (Proverbs 25: 20) -- "and as vinegar upon nitre" -- and in (Jeremiah 2: 26) The article denoted is not that which we now understand by the term nitre i.e. nitrate of Potassa -- "saltpetre" -- but the nitrum of the Latins and the natron or native carbonate of soda of modern chemistry."
Smith's Bible Dictionary
June 7, 2017